Arden House NEC Birmingham

Terrible place!! Overgrown with ****s in front … hardly any parking at all (perhaps enough for three cars. Room 5 where my colleague slept had the worst bathroom I’ve seen in years at a hotel or guest house. His toilet also wouldn’t flush. My room on the second morning had issues and shower wouldn’t work, so I was asked by the manager (if that was who he was) to shower in my colleagues room!! What a cheek, if I pay an extortionate amount of money which I did for this awful place, I’d expect to have a working shower or a refund!!! The curtains are flimsy to when the sun comes up the room is lit up which means you can’t sleep. Clearly due to religious reasons, this establishment don’t serve bacon or pork sausages in the morning. Not a train smash but would have been nice to know. Lastly, you actually eat your breakfast at a tiny table in the reception area. When we asked for our invoice, we couldn’t even get that because … “they ran out of printer ink” you couldn’t make it up!! I have stayed in about 150 hotels in 3 years and this is the 2nd worst I’ve ever stayed in. Awful place… whoever have rated this place 4 out of 5 clearly aren’t used to staying in nice places. This is a 2 star at most!! The sooner whoever owns this place realises the faults with this establishment and closes it, the better. To be honest, it’s not even in a convenient location. There is nothing I can say positive about the Arden house. I wouldn’t even stay here again if it was free and that’s the truth!! The funny thing is, they have a sign outside with the name Arden House in it with 5 stars under it. The owner sure has a good sense of humour though.

It was very clean and tidy, and the room was so nice I couldn’t believe is true . The guy from the reception was so friendly and kind deserved every penny. I kindly recommend it !👏

We moved from one to room another 1st tv did not work 2nd room was filthy 3rd on the ground floor had a en-suite with no obscure glass, blind etc at the window, to be fair the first and 3rd rooms weren’t dirty just had problems but the 2nd room was pretty dismal, won’t be booking again

Reception’s customer service was awful, he tried to hold a grudge about us changing the dates due to an emergency shift at work (NHS) also you have to pay additional money if you get there after 10pm. So ended up booking elsewhere and loosing out on 2 nights fully booked as the customer service (via phone call ) made us feel uncomfortable and unwelcomed.

nice and quiet

NICE

The rooms advertised on your website were not available. The room we stayed in was not shown on the photos on your website. If it was a would not have chosen to stay there. It was dirty the carpet was stained and decor tatty. The breakfast was cooked in old dirty frying oil and was burnt.

This is a converted house in a built up residential street. Yes, i should have done my homework, but it is what it is. Nothing wrong at all really just not what i am used to. Tape holding the carpet going into toilet was a bit weird. Heater on wall not working, a plug in heater provided. The bathroom was very nice, did not match the tired decor in bedroom. Eating area in the reception room. If you remove the hotel part of the establishment then you have exactly what you have, a b&b. All in all nothing untoward but again the word hotel is incorrect and it is being charged a hotel rate, not a B&B.